1988 The adventure begins.

Let's start at the beginning..and a little bit of history.  When we were first married (1982) we'd love to go up to public beach on Meech Lake on the weekend, it was free and spacious, water was friendly and there was always a spot to picnic.  By 1987 about 1000 other people discovered our little secret, parking became scarce, then you had to pay to park a mile from the beach, bus loads of kids would appear out of nowhere and park themselves on your blanket, the water became oily with sunscreen... the thrill was gone.  So on a whim, Mike answered an add in the paper and went to see the "100 feet of land on Little Lake Bitobi in Northfield Quebec".  He loved it, and I trusted him, so sight unseen we signed the papers and became land owners.  I pictured a grassy hill gently rolling onto a sandy beach.

Not so much.